Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskThe trigger is heavier rainfall, caused by some unusual weather patterns. This year the flow of moist air which normally arrives in the south-east instead moved to the north-east, says Moacyr Araújo, who co-ordinates the Brazilian Network of Climate Change Research, an academic group.
As the planet warms, such extremes of weather are becoming more frequent. But “you need more than rainfall to create a disaster,” says José Marengo of Cemaden, the federal agency responsible for disaster alerts. Badly sited or poorly built housing is part of the problem. Recife is low-lying and densely populated. The city’s poorest live on riverbanks and alongside canals. In Petropolis these residents cannot afford expensive housing, nor the 2.5% land tax still paid to the descendants of the last Brazilian emperor, who was ousted in 1889. So they build homes on steep hills, which get swept away in mudslides. Some of this year’s victims lived in houses condemned by civil-defence workers 11 years ago after a similar disaster.
Cemaden is cash-strapped, too. It gets one seventh of the cash it received a decade ago, before Brazil fell into a recession in 2014. With no money to install them, weather-monitoring systems sit unused in boxes. Bureaucratic delays do not help. Mr Marengo says it is frustrating when he works “like hell” to issue alerts only to see officials sit on them until just before disaster hits .
Actually, deaths from natural disasters have seen a large decline over the past century – from, in some years, millions of deaths per year to an average of 60,000 over the past decade.
Not necessarily man-made, certainly man-facilitated... People build irregularly on hillsides w/o permits and with total disregard for building codes. Politicians don't act out of fear of backlash. Then it rains, mudslides happen, people die. Everyone pretends to be surprised.
Maybe stop cutting down trees? Idk
Imagine that
weather is weather whether you like it or not
Brazil has long abandoned African.Brazilians like American has long abandoned her descendants of enslaved Africans.
look at my boobs😘
If they didn't erase forest for crops. No landslide, flood etc
Shit is Happening 🔥🤟🏼
Climate change deniers will claim its part of God’s plan . 😭😭😭
the reflects of LulaOficial corruption for decades! That's not even close he can do if elected again. We still pay for his corruption, where the lack of investments in infrastructure drove us to flooded days. Decades of corruption can't be fixed if he is back! will get worst.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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